I was in high school before I realized you could go to a McDonalds even if you weren't on vacation. It was around then (I wasn't that bright) that I realized most kids didn't grow up playing in a family band. My family band, The Stucky Orchestra, made up of my grandpa and aunts and uncles and parents and little cousins played all around south central Kansas in gazeboes and churches and floats in parades. We made fun lively music and if it wasn't the best band you've ever heard, it might have been the sweetest. Somewhere in high school I discovered bluegrass and old time music (via some important friends and an Old & in the way and The New Lost City Ramblers tape that got stuck in my car stereo for months) and realized that was the music for me. They say a poor fiddler is better than a bad violinist, and that was absolutely true in my case. I've played with friends and strangers all across the country, and even with a few of my fiddle heroes.
In July of 2013 I went up to Ohio and spent three days with my buddy Jesse Henry and the great band The Field Dogs writing and recording an album.
It was one of the most intense and amazing creative experiences I’ve ever been a part of. Here’s a beautiful video of one of the songs.
Jesse Henry and The Field Dogs - "Stay With Me" from Thinking Eye on Vimeo.
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